Second station:

O helpless one, stop wailing over misfortune and trust God, for wailing only compounds the misfortune and is itself a great error. If you have found Him Who gives you the misfortune, it will be a gift bringing pleasure and happiness. So stop wailing and thank God like the nightingale, then all flowers will smile at you. If you do not find Him, know that the world is pain and loss coming from that destitution. So why wail over a small misfortune when you bear a worldwide responsibility? Rather, trust God and, trusting Him, laugh in the face of the misfortune so that it too will laugh. As it laughs, it will diminish and change.

Know, O selfish one, that happiness in this world lies in forsaking this world. If you know and seek God, this is enough, for then all things will be for you even if you abandon them. If you are selfish you will experience total loss, for whatever you do, all things will be against you. So, in either case, forsake the world. Forsaking the world means considering it God's property and dealing with it with His permission, in His name...

The only profitable business here is to make your mortal life eternal. If you seek your selfhood, it is rotten and without foundation. If you seek the outer world, upon it is the stamp of ephemerality. Nothing is worth purchasing in this market of rotten goods. So pass on... Beyond it, the sound goods are all lined up...

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